On the fence for Nova...

The new Nova upgrade is much better than the old buggy version. Everything works as it should with even more choices and better design.

dreaming of electric sheep

The previous version of Nova was/is on my GS4, and it wasn't buggy as far as I know ... worked/works perfectly for me. And it doesn't matter to me at all if the menu system & settings in Nova follow the whole "material design" thing or not. It's still the same thing, just different colors/look.

Weird. I'd just uninstall/reinstall Nova. Just be sure to set up a current backup in Nova before you do it.

Looks to me like a random one-off gremlin that will go away with a reinstall.

Sorry, that was some sleepy user error. I'd applied a screenshot as a wallpaper by mistake. I then applied a backup which didn't help. Simply applying the wallpaper again set things right.

I've set up Nova for the most part. No fancy icon pack yet but it's great so far besides not settling on one of those. One thing, I wish it offered the Touchwiz style app drawer icon as I'm not into the Lollipop app drawer or icon. I've removed the card style app drawer and went with the app drawer gesture instead.

I have been using Nova (Prime) for a year or so and really enjoy it. Based on some of the screenshots I am seeing here I now know I am missing how to make my wallpaper my background. I know its easy but I have likely missed it somewhere. Can someone point it out for me.

For some reason I kept avoiding third party launchers. After reading in these forums all the good posted about Nova, I finally bit the bullet about four months ago.
I totally dig it. Got my homescreen set up just how I want it, and then locked it.